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References for literature from mathematicians who provided critiques and proposals concerning ethical aspects of mathematics research

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Three dimensional real Lie groups with cocompact discrete subgroups

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Which great mathematicians were also historians of mathematics?

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Mathematicians with both “very abstract” and “very applied” achievements

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Upper bound on the sectional curvature of the orthogonal group

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Real orthogonal and sign

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Covariant derivative of determinant of the metric tensor

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Have you ever seen this bizarre commutative algebra?

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Reading list for basic differential geometry?

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Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics

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Why is there no symplectic version of spectral geometry?

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Research-only permanent positions worldwide

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Motivations for the study of dual connections

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General description of surface with zero gaussian curvature

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Math books for advanced high school students

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Research-level mathematical bookstores

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basics of classification of trilinear forms (when is it non-discrete)

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Examples of Non-Power Associative Algebras

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When is a closed differential form harmonic relative to some metric?

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"Famous" 2d Riemannian manifolds with non-constant curvature

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Conformal structure determined by principal curvatures

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Which mathematical ideas have done most to change history?

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"Noncommutative heat equation" -- a strange generalization of Killing vectors for a flat metric

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Why symmetric spaces?

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What is the precise statement of the correspondence between stable Higgs bundles on a Riemann surface, solutions to Hitchin's self-duality equations on the Riemann surface, and representations of the fundamental group of the Riemann surface?